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Alpine ‘still French' amid Dmitry Mazepin visit

Feb.28 Alpine remains a French Formula 1 team, despite a lack of interest from the country itself. That's the view of team owner Renault's Italian CEO Luca de Meo, whose even more famous countryman Flavio Briatore is busily revolutionising the outfit after a major 2024 slump. 'The car is much better,' Briatore told Canal Plus at the Bahrain, 'we have new and very important sponsors and the team is starting to take shape.' One of those new sponsors is Mercado Libre, one of new reserve driver Franco Colapinto's personal backers. 'We are starting to have a racing team again,' Briatore said. 'Pierre (Gasly) is happy with the performance of the car and a lot of things will change again soon in...
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